jbreckmckye

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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> With JavaScript, once you move past the basic TodoMVC examples you are pretty much on your own. This is a big problem that's addressed quite rarely. There's very few open JS codebases that cover the sorts of concerns most web
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
The article states that Ruby has substantial problems. Many readers will be web developers. The biggest and most lucrative alternative to Ruby in that space is JavaScript. Therefore: lucaspiller decided to remind people that switching to JS
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> None of this excites a moral panic. It has done, in the past, and these concerns have not been without merit. The Ur-Case is that of the Luddites. When weaving machines came onto the fore in 19th century Britain, groups of saboteurs fe
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Chrome comes with a network throttle built-in.
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You might need to retrieve your document content from a database. The CDN can phone home every so often to check its caches are still valid. This is basically how we served The Guardian.
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You can, but it's a lot harder than building a very fast website that just uses Express to render Pug templates and that caches HTML in a CDN.
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Yes, no, no, no, N/A as GDPR provides escape hatches for actions to do with 'public safety'.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> That's just how we learn to apply things correctly. That's fine when we're writing personal projects, but don't professional gigs require a greater standard of care? Imagine you need to need to transport water to yo
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> You tend to over-index on things you can measure and under-index on things that you can't. I am going to steal this. I am going to deploy it in one of this morning's meetings and pass it off as my own.
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> But of course if you've done any real world AB testing, much less any statistics training, you should already know that. Are most product managers and designers running multivariate tests thus trained? My experience has said &#x27
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I feel a little mixed about projects like this. It's fantastic to see people share their knowledge, and turn theory into practice. It's very easy to spout on about best practices and good ideas without demonstrating how they can b
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Well, no, because then they aren't a startup but a small business, surely?
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The only grumbling I've heard is from people whose careers involve ever-cleverer ways to sneak marketing analytics past unwitting users.
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No, I mean - open sourcing their software. I don't know what their goal is as a company.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Thank you, I will take a look at those resources. I cannot promise that I will keep using Redux in future, but I will try and give it a fair chance.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> As a Redux maintainer, I'll toss out my obligatory reminder you can use as much or as little abstraction on top of Redux as you want. Tell that to the previous developer. To be blunt, if your library isn't very usable without
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
It is very good, but I wonder what their intentions are. Is it to help hire talent?
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If it's a Redux app, there'll be a lot of boilerplate in that. Not 200 KLOC's worth, but a fair bit. I recently inherited a moderately sized Redux app with over 1300 source files! It's not a trivial app but it's not
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
I'm not sure, but I feel that the less I engage with Facebook the more trivial the notifications become - as though the threshold were being lowered to get me back on board. So if I have no posts garnering likes / reactions, I sta
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> SW engineering is not a zero sum game No, but some stakeholders will see it as such.
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I wouldn't be surprised if some groups have agitated against NASA making 'too much' public.
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One counter argument: national taxes shouldn't be used to produce code that could benefit other countries, unless that is recognised as a kind of international aid. (Not my opinion, but one I can imagine from certain political quarters
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Expect to keep waiting. WebAssembler does not interact with the DOM and probably never will do. It is being developed as an replacement to NaCl, not V8. Page scripting will still be done in JS for several years.
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I think PETA see outrageous behaviour as a good way to raise their profile. Whether that actually helps them achieve their goals, though, I'm not that certain.
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They should be: settlement or no, I think this case is a win for PETA. I don't believe PETA ever went into this expecting to actually win copyright privileges for animals. I think they intended to create a 'chilling effect' a
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You sound like a modern-day Marxist denouncing Leninism as nothing but a "perversion" of socialism.
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You touch on a real concern and I'm not going to make any moves until I can put it to bed. Law would be a huge investment and I need confidence I could be happy in a variety of legal careers. That being said, my motive has always been
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You can have private trade without civil rights and personal freedoms. Was segregation-era America not capitalist?
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Maybe no society that suits our instincts can scale like that? Perhaps we are just meant to live in thirty-strong groups.
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Strictly speaking wouldn't that be mercantilism? But I get your point, just substitute any of the human catastrophes of the nineteenth century.

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